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Author | : Joseph Monninger |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2011-10-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1451606346 |
Brothers Ed and Allard form a tight bond with Sarah, whose life they save, that lasts through the years, but when tragedy strikes the group in Wyoming, that friendship is tested.
Author | : Bruce Duffy |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2011-12-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1590175654 |
This “wicked, melancholy, and . . . astonishing” novel reimagines the lives of three wildly different men adrift in the 20th century: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, and G. E. Moore (Newsday). When Bruce Duffy’s The World As I Found It was first published, critics and readers were bowled over by its daring reimagining of the lives of three very different men, the philosophers Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. A brilliant group portrait with the vertiginous displacements of twentieth-century life looming large in the background, Duffy’s novel depicts times and places as various as Vienna 1900, the trenches of World War I, Bloomsbury, and the colleges of Cambridge, while the complicated main characters appear not only in thought and dispute but in love and despair. Wittgenstein, a strange, troubled, and troubling man of gnawing contradictions, is at the center of a novel that reminds us that the apparently abstract and formal questions that animate philosophy are nothing less than the intractable matters of life and death.
Author | : Robert Goolrick |
Publisher | : Algonquin Books |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1565126351 |
It was the 1950s, a time of calm, a time when all things were new and everything seemed possible. A few years before, a noble war had been won, and now life had returned to normal. For one little boy, however, life had become anything but "normal." To all appearances, he and his family lived an almost idyllic life. The father was a respected professor, the mother a witty and elegant lady, someone everyone loved. They were parents to three bright, smiling children: two boys and a girl. They lived on a sunny street in a small college town nestled neatly in a leafy valley. They gave parties, hosted picnics, went to church—just like their neighbors. To all appearances, their life seemed ideal. But it was, in fact, all appearances. Lineage, tradition, making the right impression—these were matters of great importance, especially to the mother. But behind the facade this family had created lurked secrets so dark, so painful for this one little boy, that his life would never be the same. It is through the eyes of that boy—a grown man now, revisiting that time—that we see this seemingly serene world and watch as it slowly comes completely and irrevocably undone. Beautifully written, often humorous, sometimes sweet, ultimately shocking, this is a son's story of looking back with both love and anger at the parents who gave him life and then robbed him of it, who created his world and then destroyed it. As author Lee Smith, who knew this world and this family, observed, "Alcohol may be the real villain in this pain-permeated, exquisitely written memoir of childhood—but it is also filled with absolutely dead-on social commentary of this very particular time and place. A brave, haunting, riveting book."
Author | : Amy Brady |
Publisher | : Catapult |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2022-06-14 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1646220307 |
Nineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives—including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleeman, Kim Stanley Robinson, Omar El Akkad, Lidia Yuknavitch, Melissa Febos, and more In this riveting anthology, leading literary writers reflect on how climate change has altered their lives, revealing the personal and haunting consequences of this global threat. In the opening essay, National Book Award finalist Lydia Millet mourns the end of the Saguaro cacti in her Arizona backyard due to drought. Later, Omar El Akkad contemplates how the rise of temperatures in the Middle East is destroying his home and the wellspring of his art. Gabrielle Bellot reflects on how a bizarre lionfish invasion devastated the coral reef near her home in the Caribbean—a precursor to even stranger events to come. Traveling through Nebraska, Terese Svoboda witnesses cougars running across highways and showing up in kindergartens. As the stories unfold—from Antarctica to Australia, New Hampshire to New York—an intimate portrait of a climate-changed world emerges, captured by writers whose lives jostle against incongruous memories of familiar places that have been transformed in startling ways.
Author | : Albert Einstein |
Publisher | : Book Tree |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Jews |
ISBN | : 1585092878 |
Often called he most advanced and celebrated mind of the 20th Century, this book allows us to meet Albert Einstein as a person. Explores his beliefs, philosophical ideas, and opinions on many subjects.
Author | : Chris Hedges |
Publisher | : Bold Type Books |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2011-04-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1568586612 |
Drawing on two decades of experience as a war correspondent and based on his numerous columns for Truthdig, Chris Hedges presents The World As It Is, a panorama of the American empire at home and abroad, from the coarsening effect of America's War on Terror to the front lines in the Middle East and South Asia and the continuing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Underlying his reportage is a constant struggle with the nature of war and its impact on human civilization. "War is always about betrayal," Hedges notes. "It is about betrayal of the young by the old, of cynics by idealists, and of soldiers and Marines by politicians. Society's institutions, including our religious institutions, which mold us into compliant citizens, are unmasked."
Author | : Gregory F. Pierce |
Publisher | : ACTA Publications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Christian life |
ISBN | : 9780829429091 |
The World as It Should Be offers a fresh perspective on the kingdom of God and how we can be an integral part of God's work in this worl.
Author | : Arthur Schopenhauer |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2019-08-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1624668496 |
This edition originally published by Berghahn Books. Schopenhauer's treatise on ethics is presented here in E. F. J. Payne’s definitive translation, based on the Hubscher edition (Wiesbaden, 1946-1950). This edition includes an Introduction by David Cartwright, a translator’s preface, biographical note, selected bibliography, and an index. For convenient reference to passages in Kant's work discussed by Schopenhauer, Academy edition numbers have been added.
Author | : Émile Souvestre |
Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2004-11-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780819566157 |
The first future dystopia in modern European literature, now available in English.
Author | : Thomas D. Williams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780824526665 |
An analysis of contemporary Catholic social thought, including topics of multiculturalism, economic justice, abortion, and capital punishment.